Golden Drum Festival, the Mayor of Piran and the Tourist Association Portorož announce Piran Portorož Poster Award (PPPA) 2012 competition for the most creative poster.

Young creatives, under age of 30, from countries of New Europe* are invited to participate. The author of the best poster will be awarded a prize of 1.000 euro and two full personal registrations for Golden Drum Festival 2013, including accommodation. Deadline for the PPPA 2012 competition is 18 September 2012. You can find additional information about the competition at http://www.goldendrum.com/competition/off-drum/.

Piran Portorož Poster Award 2012
Next year, the Golden Drum Festival will celebrate its 20th anniversary. Two decades ago, a new market democracy rose behind the ruins of the Berlin wall. The four-hundred-million market, so innocently exposing itself to the hardened western/capitalist marketers, had no sound knowledge or experience. What it did have, however, was a relaxed and often naive enthusiasm, unbridled fantasies, fireworks of sparkling ideas, an altogether different world and, in fact, a surprising amount of money. This wild playground without rules or role models was dominated by all kinds of random interests.

The Golden Drum in the westernmost part of New Europe, as it was first named, raised a mirror to the newly formed advertising profession, reflecting its own and foreign examples, fair play and targeted effort/creativity. Golden Drum allowed the creative industry of New Europe to recognise, appraise and integrate itself, ultimately becoming a new original entity on the global advertising map.

Portorož and Piran were noted on the map of New Europe as its creative metropolis that dictates the standard rules of the profession, creativity and hospitality; a place that unites competitors and celebrates winners.

Brief
Design and send us your poster proposal: PORTOROŽ PIRAN, HOME OF THE GOLDEN DRUM FOR 20 YEARS. As an inspiration for your creative work, you may use photos, found at http://www.goldendrum.com/competition/off-drum/, your own photo material, illustration or fictional image. You can enter Piran Portorož Poster Awards without any registration fee. Only Young Drummers under 30 years (born after 5 October 1982) from countries of New Europe* are eligible to compete.

Awards
The author of the best poster will receive 1.000 EUR from the Municipality of Piran and two full registrations for the Golden Drum Festival 2013, including accommodation. The authors of the second and third ranked posters will each receive two full registrations for the Golden Drum Festival 2013.

*only authors from the following countries can participate in the PPPA competition: Albania, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan.